Monday March 28, 2005

Solaris 10 and JDS 3 on my SunRay

Last week another colleague and I presented to one of the groups of SAs who will be converting our infrastructure to Solaris 10 / Java Dektop 3.0 over the next quarter. They already have some machines up and running so I got the instructions on how to try running Solaris 10 / JDS 3 on my Sun Ray. I did a UTswitch and was up and running on Solaris 10. IT is still working on the final details of the deployment and the look and feel but it was exciting to actually be running the real JDS. Gnome 2.6 does look much more together than Gnome 2 which is what we were using for JDS Preview. I think the biggest complaint is going to be that people will have to redo any customization of the desktop that they did with JDS Preview. By having separate configuration files for the two different versions of JDS there won't be any chance of corruption if you go back and forth between the two.

The plans for this week include presentations to two more SA staff meetings, continuing to execute on our stakeholder engagement plan, a change acceptance review on Wednesday and lots more.